Alternative stable states in ecology.¶
Beisner, B. E., Haydon, D. T., & Cuddington, K. (2003). Alternative stable states in ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 1(7), 376-382.
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Primes¶
- Attractor Selection and Basin Control
- The structural insight applies wherever stable states coexist: chemical reactors with multiple equilibrium concentrations, neural networks settling into multiple local minima, organizations converging to different cultural patterns, ecosystems locked into alternative stable regimes, as Beisner, Haydon, and Cuddington (2003) document in their cross-domain review of alternative stable states.
This sourceReviews alternative stable states across ecosystems: defines the multiplicity/bistability criterion, distinguishes community vs. ecosystem perspectives, and establishes feedback self-reinforcement as the stabilizing mechanism. SUPPORTS marker 049 (cross-domain coexisting stable regimes).
- The structural insight applies wherever stable states coexist: chemical reactors with multiple equilibrium concentrations, neural networks settling into multiple local minima, organizations converging to different cultural patterns, ecosystems locked into alternative stable regimes, as Beisner, Haydon, and Cuddington (2003) document in their cross-domain review of alternative stable states.
- Recovery
- The possibly-transformed endpoint is the load-bearing feature the frame insists on: the recovered forest often does not return to its exact pre-fire composition, and in fire-adapted systems may stabilize into a different community entirely — an alternative stable state that is a success of recovery, not a failure of restoration.
This sourceEstablishes that disturbed ecosystems may recover to an alternative stable state rather than the pre-disturbance community.
- The possibly-transformed endpoint is the load-bearing feature the frame insists on: the recovered forest often does not return to its exact pre-fire composition, and in fire-adapted systems may stabilize into a different community entirely — an alternative stable state that is a success of recovery, not a failure of restoration.
- Regime Change
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